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Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film The Ocean Waif, released in 1916 by Independent Film Service, starring Carlyle Blackwell, Doris Kenyon, Edgar Norton, Fraunie Fraunholz and William Morris, and directed by Alice Guy-Blaché.
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The Ocean Waif: Directed by Alice Guy. With Carlyle Blackwell, Doris Kenyon, Edgar Norton, Fraunie Fraunholz. An abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist.
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- Short, Comedy, Drama
- Alice Guy
- 1916-11-02
An abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist. Millie Jessop, is an ocean waif, who was washed up by the waves and deposited at the door of Hy Jessop, a disreputable, drunken fisherman on the Atlantic Coast.
Millie Jessop, the ocean waif, is a young woman (actress Doris Kenyon was 19) living in the seaside shack of one Hy Jessop, who apparently found her when she washed up on the beach from a shipwreck as an infant.
The movie Ocean Waif, from Alice Guy-Blaché, is about a girl (Millie) who flees from her abusive adoptive father with the help of a boy Sem and ends up in an abandoned house. Here, after playing ghost in the house, she meets a young writer who writes a story "Ocean Waif" about her.
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Directed by Alice Guy-BlachéWritten by Frederick ChapinStarring Doris Kenyon, Carlyle Blackwell, Edgar NortonSynopsis: An abused woman finds love in the arms...
- 40 min
- 116
- Women's Film Classics